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Podcast Episode 61 - Marketing America's Most Promising Places with Amanda Ellis

Marketing your community for economic development and talent attraction

Dane Carlson
Dane Carlson
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Podcast Episode 61 - Marketing America's Most Promising Places with Amanda Ellis

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Episode # 61 of the Econ Dev Show Podcast is now live.

In this episode, Dane talks with Amanda Ellis, Editor in Chief of Livability.com, about marketing your community for economic development and talent attraction.


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In the episode, we also discuss:

  • Amanda's background (she worked in marketing with the Chattanooga Chamber for years prior to joining Livability)
  • Why marketing, PR, content marketing are important to economic development
  • What drives people to relocate per our research; what's important to them in a community
  • Livability's recently released 2022 Top 100 Best Places to Live
  • What Livability does and what helpful industry expertise we offer

Additionally at the end, since Amanda also hosts the Inside America’s Best Cities podcast, we discuss the difference between being a guest and the host of a podcast.

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CEO of Sitehunt, the AI platform for economic development, site selection and RFI automation. Host and publisher of the Econ Dev Show. In Houston, Texas.


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